Double Saddle Blanket Cylinder

Object NameVase

Artist Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941)

Assistant(glass drawing) Flora C. Mace (American, b. 1949)

Made FromGlass

Date1975

Place MadeUnited States, UT, Snowbird

TechniqueBlown, applied glass drawing, cased

SizeOverall H: 20.8 cm, Diam (max): 13.7 cm

Accession Number75.4.56

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Chihuly, Glass Cylinders

On ViewBen W. Heineman Sr. Family Gallery of Contemporary Glass.

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

This series was inspired by Navajo blanket designs.

Physical DescriptionTranslucent dull custard yellow cased with bubbly colorless glass and iridescent purple-blue, green aventurine, light green, reddish-brown, and amber-brown and gray-white glass; blown. Flat circular upper rim; cylindrical body with near encircling undulating iridescent purple-blue multi-line band with light green lower border divided vertically with multi-line band of green aventurine bordered with gray-white bands flanked by reddish-brown stylized horses standing on a multi-colored "spatter" ground; flat base with pushed-up rough pontil; signed in the glass with a reddish-brown horse on multi-colored "spatted" ground and "Chihuly" inside the horse.
Provenance

Former Collection Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941)